Tuan-Anh Tran

Bitnami recently releases a prod version of their bitnami-docker-node with much smaller size due to stripping a bunch of unncessary stuff for runtime.

FROM ubuntu:latest RUN useradd -u 10001 scratchuser FROM scratch COPY dosomething /dosomething COPY --from=0 /etc/passwd /etc/passwd USER scratchuser ENTRYPOINT ["/dosomething"] Quite innovative use of multi stage docker build.

meta: vote regarding Rod’s status on the TSC Some remove information on what Rod did from the above link (image ) new Node.js fork ayojs regarding this issue

Note to self: When developing new feature for Node.js native module and using node-pre-gyp, make sure you pump version higher so that node-pre-gyp will not pull the prebuilt binary.

A better man page.

Birthday paradox The Power of Two Random Choices: A Survey of Techniques and Results by Mitzenmacher, Richa, and Sitaraman Cache eviction: when are randomized algorithms better than LRU?

WebAssembly Binary Toolkit - Easiest way to setup WebAssembly binary toolkit.

Successor to xpath-object-transform camaro is an utility to transform XML to JSON, using Node.js binding to native XML parser pugixml, one of the fastest XML parser around.

This chapter describes various performance tricks that allowed the author to write a very high-performing parser in C++: pugixml.

Very young but interesting project.

Selling points: Small The image is based on glibc for wide compatibility Using apt package manager for access to large number of packages Quicker security updates Even though there are many complaints about glibc, it’s still very widely-adopted.

I recently updated all of my personal Dockerfiles that I have for multiple purposes to use alpine as base image.

How to setup twemproxy running on kubernetes.

Just my own experience setting up traefik as Ingress controller on Kubernetes.

Add support for abi stable module API (N-API) as “Experimental feature”.

Proxy based Redis cluster solution supporting pipeline and scaling dynamically Seems like more feature-riched than twemproxy or dynomite however the documentation seems poor and community is smaller.

a Redis module that provides native JSON capabilities – get it from the GitHub repository or read the docs online.

TLDR Build Price-Aware Applications Check the Price History: In general, picking older generations of instances will result in lower net prices and fewer interruptions.

Symptom: autoscaler works (it can scale up) but for some reasons, it doesn’t scale down after the load goes away.

smaz.js is smaz (short string compression from antirez) binding for v8 Javascript engine.

Fluentd Docker image to send Kuberntes logs to CloudWatch Very easy to setup.

A DaemonSet to be run on node instance and keep polling http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/spot/termination-time for termination notice.

How to build a custom Kubernetes scheduler by Mr.

Since Sierra, I got prompted for my ssh key password everytime.

A bit outdated post but many points stay valid.

Time and time again, the young startup promotes their longest-tenured young engineer to become CTO of their 20-something startup.

Twemproxy is a fast/lightweight proxy for memcached and redis.

kube-monkey is an implementation of Netflix’s Chaos Monkey for Kubernetes clusters.

Kube-Lego automatically requests certificates for Kubernetes Ingress resources from Let’s Encrypt You can find complete example how to use this with GCE here

A Terminal Client for MySQL with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting.

I’ve seen people bundle config file within source code.

Your DevOps Dashboard for Kubernetes I’ve been looking for CI/DI that would complete the Kubernetes setup.

At work, I have to work with many 3rd party supplier API which requires IP whitelisting.

Just some of my notes while learning about Kubernetes.

Slate Amethyst Hammerspoon kwm kwm seems to be the best - feature-wise but it requires too many hacking to be done.

Myles Borins (@thealphanerd) recently ran citgm with yarn, and shared the results.

I’ve just migrated 4 big applications at work from Node.js v4 to Node.js v6 LTS. 3 of them require some little changes and 1 with no changes at all since it’s using Babeljs.

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If this were true, I will definitely upgrade to Scorpio.

the world’s smallest (995 bytes) CSS framework http://mincss.com In an attempt to make my website fast again.

If your MySQL server started with --secure-file-priv option, you will have to move your csv file to that specific folder first.

TJ Holowaychuk writes about Do and Don’ts of AWS Lambda.

Nixon’s retrospective on Vietnam war, 10 years later.

Not in any particular order errno by rvagg worker-farm by rvagg node-timsort microlock thenby.js thenBy is a javascript micro library that helps sorting arrays on multiple keys lz-string node-expat You use Node.js for speed?

So a few months back, when I read of AWS lambda, I instantly fell in love with it though not having any immediate use with it.

Flynn 1.0 released.

Something to consider along side with deis.

I don’t get ping pong table or hanging out during workday.

An extension that makes Chrome always use the mobile web version of Twitter, which is much faster and better looking than the old desktop web version.

I recently had to setup nginx as load balancer at work.